Manpower firm Morson Group has hailed a strong year after boosting its annual profit and revenues.

The global recruiter and project management firm is headquartered in Salford with 30 global offices, and provides staff to sectors including rail, power, aerospace, defence and nuclear.

For the full year to December 2013, the firm which has three divisions, Morson International, Morson Projects and Vital Human Resources, reported a 38 per cent surge in adjusted pre-tax profits of £13.4m, up from £9.7m on the previous year, while revenues increased 17.7 per cent to £653.5m, up from £555.1m.

During the year Morson expanded its operations in the Middle East with the opening of an office in Doha, Qatar, and in early, Morson opened it first US office in Houston, Texas.

Initially focusing within the oil and gas sector, Morson will expand its services into other industries across the country.

The group said it is benefitting from the addition of Salford recruitment firm Vital Human Resources, which Morson acquired last November after Vital went into administration, saving around 2,000 jobs.

Morson’s group finance director, Paul Gilmour, said: “The figures reported demonstrate how Morson has built significantly on the gains achieved towards the latter part of 2012, and are a pleasing set of results for the Group in a challenging market.”

Other highlights for the group included registering more than 76,000 new candidates, delivering 418 engineering projects with more than 400 contractors engaged overseas.

The group said the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier programme was a key project for the group, which supplied engineers throughout many stages of the design and construction.

Morson’s chief executive, Ged Mason, said: “I am delighted with the 2013 results, this reflects the hard work delivered by all my colleagues at Morson and the initiatives put in place for growth. We look forward to continuing this trend.”